Pimpy Thursday

New Westcott Apollo Softboxes Our friends over at FJ Westcott have just introduced two new additions to their Apollo Speedlight Softbox lineup. Check out the 43″ Apollo Orb, the first octagonal softbox that doesn’t require an adapter ring, and the 16″ x 30″ Apollo Strip, perfect for adding that accent or hair light to your speedlight toolkit!

In honor of these two new softboxes, Westcott is running a contest where you might have the chance to win one of these hot new items! Head over to The Lighting Lowdown blog for all the info and to enter.

Deals from Kelby Training If you’re thinking of staring your holiday shopping early and picking up a book or DVD from KelbyTraining.com, now’s a perfect time because in October, every order ships with a coupon good for $10 off your next purchase — so order now, and save more later! Visit The Kelby Training Store to get started.

If you are into senior portrait photography (not senior citizens but seniors in high school), James Schmelzer’sSenior Portrait Photography 3-disc DVD set is on sale for $30 off. This DVD set covers everything from indoor lighting to outdoor lighting to cool ideas for backdrops and props.

KelbyTraining.comCalvin Hollywood’sPhotoshop Tricks for Beginners has just been added to the KelbyTraining.com library. In this class, Calvin gives you a string of quick Photoshop tips that will instantly improve your own techniques in Photoshop CS5 and earlier versions. It might say “beginners” in the class title, but this class is for all skill levels as any of these tricks can help improve the way you work in Photoshop!

Light It. Shoot It. Retouch It. Webcast with Scott Kelby & RC Concepcion If you missed the live broadcast of Scott and RC’s Light It. Shoot It. Retouch It. webcast the other day, keep an eye out on the NAPP member site and KelbyTraining.com today. It’ll be added as soon as our web team can get it posted to these sites :)

The Grid Another thing to keep an eye out for today is the new episode of The Grid! We had a doozy of a discussion yesterday about “What’s Fair Game for Your Portfolio?” with lots of lively questions and comments from viewers on whether or not photos from workshops should be in your portfolio. Episode 27 will be up sometime later today, so keep checking in over at KelbyTV.com to see when it’s live. (And feel free to watch some of our other shows while you’re there ;) )

Dave Cross Workshops Dave Cross will be hosting some killer workshops over the next few weeks! Check these out:

Photo Plus Expo If you’re going to Photo Plus Expo, Scott will be speaking in the Manfrotto booth Thursday afternoon, October 27. We’ll let you know what time as soon as the schedule is finalized, but you can go ahead and register for your free Expo pass right here.

About Me

Scott is the President of KelbyOne, an online educational community for Photographers, Photoshop and Lightroom users. He's editor and publisher of Photoshop User Magazine, Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo, and the author of a string of bestselling Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography books.